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Why is that important to remember? I rarely see this sentiment when it’s anybody else under discussion. When articles about outrageous corporate behavior are
by kweingar 4y ago
Why is that important to remember?
I rarely see this sentiment when it’s anybody else under discussion.
When articles about outrageous corporate behavior are shared on here, I never see “well if this is what the shareholders want, they own the business, so it’s their right.”
You have ethical responsibilities that extend beyond the bare bones of legal obligation. I’m not just going to shrug when someone messes with thousands of livelihoods just because legally it’s their right to do it.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoWhat if those employees have gained the hatred of well over half the nation; and set up a system where they can do nothing but drink wine and attend yoga classes for half the day? This is a long-awaited reckoning.
- emptyparadise 4y agoI mean of course those tik toks will show them drinking wine and attending yoga because showing actual work would violate their employment rules? There's a lot of bad takes floating around, but "Twitter employees deserve it" is really unfair.
- kweingar 4y agoI applaud you for being honest in a way that many commenters aren’t: you are just happy to see people you don’t like being punished. People have been embarrassing themselves trying not to directly say this (“actually making engineers print out their code changes on paper is good management”, etc.)
- gjsman-1000 4y agoIf you take a look at Twitter’s employee lifestyle before Elon took over, it is not that I do not like them. They had, quite literally, objectively, built a system where they could do almost nothing, their platform didn’t need to innovate in any way and could continue losing money indefinitely, and they could (as stated) drink wine and do yoga all day. In which case, they had it coming. Sorry, not sorry. You can’t continue losing money and handing out unlimited wine forever at the bar. Cry me a river when that inevitably had to end. Any Twitter employee should have been able to figure out that a business can’t have crazy perks, almost no new features, declining market share, and constant financial losses, without something having to give.
- jonathankoren 4y agoIt sounds like your problem is that you’re not treated as well as old Twitter treated it’s employees, and there think everyone should be treated as poorly as you are. I would suggest that you get a job at a better place. I suspect you’d feel better about yourself.